USDA provided their second report in this planting progress and conditions series, it's still providing single digit comparisons, and will gain validity in the weeks ahead. The upcoming weather patterns will ride the fence as causing fieldwork delays or being good for crop development. Consider this a start, and an open invitation to share your feedback of your regional progress and conditions.

We only get Corn planting, Spring Wheat seedings and Winter Wheat conditions this week. Winter Wheat Conditions did reflect a 9% reduction in the Fair/Good & Excellent categories vs last year. This indicative of the winter winds & dryness, with any impact from last nights temps in the teens showing up in the following weeks. It'll take a few days for last week's rains and flooding to dry out,…

We started this week with USDA Acreage Intentions and Quarterly Stocks surveys, and end the week with the market digesting tariff news. While farmers focus on fieldwork and planting, in between the rain storms, the market will put the tariff plan under the microscope.

After digesting acreage and quarterly stocks surveys, the market will receive the USDA Planting Intentions and Quarterly Stocks numbers on Monday. After that, the markets return to the predictability of weather and geopolitics.

Next week we'll be releasing the FBN Planting Intentions Survey results ahead of the USDA WASDE report. How is your crop planning evolving?

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The grains markets have all had their days on the positive side, and now they're drifting sideways as money flows rebalance for end of the month, end of the quarter, and reposition for the upcoming tariff deadlines. We'll be releasing our acreage survey results next week to respondents and listeners, so be sure to tune in.

I'll be talking markets here on the FBN Community and look forward to engaging with you all. Currently, the highest priority is the FBN acreage survey.…

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke to Commodity Classic attendees in Denver on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Sec. Rollins said she and President Trump know that times have been tough over the past 4 years and neither of them will forget the American farmer or rancher and they will never stop fighting for them. Her vision for American agriculture will not tolerate levels of bureaucracy, but…

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On Friday, the USDA surprised the market by reporting lower quarterly ending stocks and also reducing both corn and soybean yields. This resulted in meaningful reductions in 24/25 US corn and soybean ending stocks.…

The Fed dropped interest rates 25 bps, now 100 bps or 1% from the high, but future decisions are less clear. The fed guided to 2 net reductions in 2025 increasingly cautious for next year, but notable players like Apollo Management are now internally guiding to net rate INCREASES next year. The Fed's next meeting will be on January 29th, 2025, where only 11% of market participants are expecting…

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